Hoi,
I have been blogging a lot the last two days with DBpedia in mind. My
understanding is that at DBpedia a lot of effort went into making something
of a cohesive model of properties. Now that the "main type GND" is about to
be deleted, it makes sense to adopt much of the work that has been done at
DBpedia.
The benefits are:
- we will get access to academically reviewed data structures
- we do not have to wait and ponder and get in to thebusiness enriching
the data content of DBpedia
- we can easily compare the data in DBpedia and Wikidata
- more importantly, DBpedia has spend effort in connecting to other
resources
Yes, we can import data from DBpedia and we can import data from Wikipedia.
Actually we can do both. The one thing that needs to be considered is that
we need data before we can curate it. With more data available it becomes
more relevant to invest time in tools that compare data. We can start doing
this now and, over time this will become more relevant. But now we need
more properties and the associated date.
What do you think?
Thanks,
GerardM
http://ultimategerard.blogspot.com